The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-26
BITTEN BY DOGS.
Many Americans Who Privately Patronize
 Pasteur's Hydrophobic Institute.

Many Americans Who Privately Patronize Pasteur's Hydrophobic Institute.
 Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of the United States Navy, has returned from Paris, where he looked into the Pasteur system of fighting hydrophobia, with a view to its introduction into a Govern ment hospital in this country. He says that medical opinions in France differ as to the efficacy of the inoculations, but that the records of cases seem to establish the value of Pasteur's work The number of Americans who resort to Prof. Pasteur's institute is not sus- pected by their countrymen. Many make the trip privately, especially if they belong to well-to-do families able to pay the expenses without publicity. Besides, bitten persons are always 10th to admit their nervousness, and there fore go to Paris ostensibly for pleasure, while their real errand is to get inoculated. Pasteur hu- mors their desire for secrecy, and permits them to register under assumed names, even when he knows who they really are, which is by no means al ways. A note of introduction from the American Minister is required, as a matter of form. No fee is charged, but voluntary contributions are accepted. and these go into a fund for the main tenance of the hospital. Pasteur per. sonally takes no pay.
 A young New York lady who went through the process assumed for the oc- casion the name Marietta Byrne" i" Her pet dog had bitten her and then died in convulsions, so that she did not know for a certainty whether or not she was in danger of the dreaded rabies. She rode to Pasteur' house, at 14 Rue VaquelIn, which is an insig- nifcant building in the midst of the various schools in the Latin Quarter. She was accompanied by her father, who presented her credentials and gave all the particulars of her case to a clerk, who recorded them in a big book. Then she was shown into an anteroom, and directed how to prepare her self for the operation. This consisted simply in arranging her attire so that, without delay, the surgeon could inject the virus under the skin. Then she was placed in line with seventeen other bitten persons, all women or children, for this day was set apart for them-men having had the previous day. All marched into the room where Pasteur and his assistants were in readiness. One surgeon stood beside table on which was glass jar containing the protective fluid. Over the top of this vessel was stretched a Altering paper. Beside itlay hypo- dermic syringe. The man thrust the sharp, delicate nozzle of this instru- ment through the paper into the liquid and filled it in that way, in order that by no possibility could it be vitiated by contact with the air. Having thus charged the syringe, he handed it to the principal operator, who deftly in- serted it obliquely through the skin of the patient and quickly injected its con- tents. It was like the punctlre of a needle, and not very painful. The girl bore it without f1inching, but some of the children, as well as the more ignorant adults, cried and struggled at it. She had to return for additional in. jeotiqns during several weeks-M F Sun,